Long-term protection of hematopoiesis against the cytotoxic effects of multiple doses of nitrosourea by retrovirus-mediated expression of human O6-alkylguanine-DNA-alkyltransferase

Blood

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1957-1961

  Jelínek, Jaroslav ^b   Fairbairn, Leslie J ^b   Dexter, T Michael ^b   Rafferty, Joseph A ^b   Stocking, Carol ^b   Ostertag, Wolfram ^b   Margison, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 O ALKYLGUANINE DNA ALKYLTRANSFERASE; ALKYLATING AGENT; METHYLNITROSOUREA; NITROSOUREA DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS EXPRESSION;

EID: 0030027681     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v87.5.1957.1957     Document Type: Article

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